A Blackfoot Quilled And Beaded Hide Tobacco Bag

composed of very finely tanned hide, sinew sewn in yellow, pink, white, dark blue and two shades of red against the light blue glass beadwork ground, with a pair of diamonds on the front, the long tapering flap with a frieze of terraced triangles, an openwork section of hide strips below wrapped in ivory and (now faded) red-dyed porcupine quillwork; long fringe pendants trimmed with dew claws and bullet casings.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY, 1998

Wardwell, Allen. Native Paths: American Indian Art from the Collection of Charles and Valerie Diker, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1998: p. 66, no. 72